Appointment with Adventure is a half-hour adventure/dramatic anthology television series broadcast live on CBS from 1955-1956. The program has no host. It aired at 10 p.m. EST on the Sunday evening schedule between the better known Alfred Hitchcock Presents and What's My Line? It ran opposite The Loretta Young Show on NBC and Life Begins at Eighty, a panel discussion series hosted by Jack Barry on ABC.
The series aired fifty-three episodes, having premiered on April 3, 1955, near the end of the regular 1954-1955 television season. It ran throughout the spring and summer of 1955 and began its fall run on October 2, 1955, concluding new segments on April 1, 1956. In effect, the series ran for a full year without the summer rebroadcast period standard for most programs.
Episodes centered upon wars in U.S. history as well as dramatizations from events from many places throughout the world, then and in the past. In the episode which aired on May 1, 1955, Polly Bergen, Dane Clark, and Hugh Reilly starred in "Rendezvous in Paris." Tony Randall and Jack Klugman, fifteen years prior to their television roles as Felix Unger and Oscar Madison, respectively, in ABC's The Odd Couple, appeared with Gena Rowlands, later on NBC's 87th Precinct, in the September 4, 1955, episode entitled "The Pirate's House." Randall also appeared two months earlier in the Appointment with Adventure episode "Caribbean Cruise."
Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
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Season 1 | Episode 1 | Minus Three Thousand | 1955-04-03 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 2 | Five in Judgment | 1955-04-10 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 3 | The Fateful Pilgrimage | 1955-04-17 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 4 | The Quiet Gun | 1955-04-24 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 5 | Rendezvous in Paris | 1955-05-01 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 6 | Escape from Vienna | 1955-05-08 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 7 | Priceless Cargo | 1955-05-15 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 8 | Forbidden Holiday | 1955-05-22 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 9 | Stranger on a Plane | 1955-05-29 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 10 | Perilous Journey | 1955-06-05 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 11 | The Secret of Juan Valdez | 1955-06-12 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 12 | Race the Comet | 1955-06-19 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 13 | Honeymoon in Spain | 1955-06-26 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 14 | Bridge of the Devil | 1955-07-03 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 15 | Crash Landing | 1955-07-10 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 16 | Return of the Stranger | 1955-07-17 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 17 | Desperate Game | 1955-07-24 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 18 | The Snow People | 1955-07-31 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 19 | Never to Know | 1955-08-07 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 20 | The Royal Treatment | 1955-08-14 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 21 | Five Star Crisis | 1955-08-21 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 22 | Masquerade | 1955-08-28 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 23 | The Pirate's House | 1955-09-04 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 24 | When in Rome | 1955-09-11 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 25 | Dangerous Mayhem | 1955-09-18 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 26 | Destination Freedom | 1955-09-25 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 1 | The Allentown Incident | 1955-10-02 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 2 | Number Seven, Hangman's Row | 1955-10-09 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 3 | The Helping Hand | 1955-10-16 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 4 | Pattern for Thieves | 1955-10-23 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 5 | Dark Memory | 1955-10-30 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 6 | State of Siege | 1955-11-06 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 7 | Stage Fright | 1955-11-13 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 8 | Relative Stranger | 1955-11-20 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 9 | Time Bomb | 1955-11-27 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 10 | Escape | 1955-12-04 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 11 | A Sword Has Two Edges | 1955-12-11 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 12 | The Big Mistake | 1955-12-18 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 13 | A Touch of Christmas | 1955-12-25 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 14 | Mutiny | 1956-01-01 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 15 | The Top of the Mountain | 1956-01-08 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 16 | Suburban Terror | 1956-01-15 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 17 | Betrayal | 1956-01-22 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 18 | The Battle of Hewitt Hill | 1956-01-29 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 19 | All Through the Night | 1956-02-05 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 20 | Till the End of Time | 1956-02-19 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 21 | Paris Venture | 1956-02-26 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 22 | Career | 1956-03-11 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 23 | High Stakes | 1956-03-04 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 24 | A Thief There Was | 1956-03-18 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 25 | Two Falls for Satan | 1956-04-01 | 30 min |